The Outer Banks faces a large question regarding their highway that keeps getting destroyed as weather eats away at the sand supporting it and sea levels potentially rise . . . locals suffer economically every time another section is destroyed and not immediately repaired, but the state suffers financially every time they temporarily fix the road.
The BBC explores how the Fukushima nuclear disaster affected worldwide views of nuclear power . . . meanwhile, Japan has shut down all but two of their 54 nuclear reactors. In the US, expansion of nuclear power plants depends, in part, on finding a place to permanently store waste. TN Senator Lamar Alexander thinks that if we offer high enough incentives, communities will step forward to volunteer to host such storage facilities.
Ohio has stiffened laws on "fracking" after concluding that recent drilling caused earthquakes around Youngstown . . . fracking and related earthquakes were also mentioned in a Dilbert cartoon last week.
Both environmental leaders and deficit hawks are fighting against an increase in natural gas powered vehicles.
Deliverymen in NYC are increasingly using electric bikes, despite the upping of the fine to $1,000 for their use
Here's an op-ed arguing for increased use of methanol to power cars. And The Economist also has a feature on methanol.
According to a new poll, Californians narrowly support high-speed rail . . . but those planning on voting do not
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